IBM® WebSphere® Application Server for Distributed Platforms and z/OS®: An Administrator's Guide [Hardcover]

A. Black (Author), M. Everett (Author), D. Draeger (Author), K. Miller (Author), R. Iyer (Author), K. McGuinnes (Author), D. Patel (Author), M. Herescu (Author), T. Gissel (Author), M. Betancourt (Author), M. Casile (Author), Y. Tang (Author), A. Beaubien (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0131855875 | ISBN-13: 978-0131855878 | Publication Date: January 1, 2005 | Edition: 1

In this book, IBM's own enterprise WebSphere experts offer authoritative, comprehensive guidance for deploying and managing WebSphere on z/OS for mainframes, UNIX(R)/Linux(R)-based distributed systems, and Windows(R) servers. Drawing on their extensive experience supporting enterprise customers and developing new WebSphere technologies, the authors address the entire management lifecycle: planning, installation, configuration, administration, application deployment, tuning, and troubleshooting. This book thoroughly covers WebSphere Application Server Version 5.0 and 5.1: both IBM Base WebSphere Application Server offerings and the advanced scalability and failover capabilities built into the popular IBM Network Deployment Edition. It has been designed to serve both as a comprehensive learning tool and as a rapid reference for working professionals.Coverage includes * The WebSphere Application Server architecture: a detailed introduction for working administrators * Installation and configuration on both distributed and z/OS platforms, from planning through security * Assembling, deploying, and securing applications with the Application Assembly Tool and Assembly Toolkit * Managing WebSphere Application Server, including clustering and workload management * Automating administrative tasks using the powerful WebSphere scripting tools * Performance monitoring/tuning using both WebSphere- and system-level tools, including real-world tuning scenarios * A start-to-finish methodology for WebSphere troubleshooting * Covering z/OS, UNIX, Linux, and Windows platforms * Learn all you need to know from IBM's own WebSphere development and advanced deployment teams * Includes the latest most thorough coverage WebSphere V5. 0/5.1 A(c) Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

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From the Back Cover

In this book, IBM's own enterprise WebSphere experts offer authoritative, comprehensive guidance for deploying and managing WebSphere on z/OS for mainframes, UNIX®/Linux®-based distributed systems, and Windows® servers. Drawing on their extensive experience supporting enterprise customers and developing new WebSphere technologies, the authors address the entire management lifecycle: planning, installation, configuration, administration, application deployment, tuning, and troubleshooting.

This book thoroughly covers WebSphere Application Server Version 5.0 and 5.1: both IBM Base WebSphere Application Server offerings and the advanced scalability and failover capabilities built into the popular IBM Network Deployment Edition. It has been designed to serve both as a comprehensive learning tool and as a rapid reference for working professionals.

Coverage includes

• The WebSphere Application Server architecture: a detailed introduction for working administrators

• Installation and configuration on both distributed and z/OS platforms, from planning through security

• Assembling, deploying, and securing applications with the Application Assembly Tool and Assembly Toolkit

• Managing WebSphere Application Server, including clustering and workload management

• Automating administrative tasks using the powerful WebSphere scripting tools

• Performance monitoring/tuning using both WebSphere- and system-level tools, including real-world tuning scenarios

• A start-to-finish methodology for WebSphere troubleshooting

• Covering z/OS, UNIX, Linux, and Windows platforms

• Learn all you need to know from IBM's own WebSphere development and advanced deployment teams

• Includes the latest most thorough coverage WebSphere V5.0/5.1

© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

About the Author

The Authors are a diverse group of experienced IBM professionals who work closely with WebSphere Application Server, helping customers place mission-critical WebSphere deployments into production and solving their most challenging technical problems. The author team members have worked on more than 1000 critical customer engagements, and have helped solve challenging production issues. They have also delivered speeches and presentations at technical conferences worldwide, as well as published IBM WebSphere whitepapers and Redbooks. Several authors have served on IBM's WebSphere development team, while others specialize in the use of emerging technologies with WebSphere. The author team members have over 20 patents pending.

© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 992 pages
• Publisher: IBM Press; 1 edition (January 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131855875
• ISBN-13: 978-0131855878
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.2 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,319,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good cross OS reference, January 29, 2005

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Jeanne Boyarsky (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IBM® WebSphere® Application Server for Distributed Platforms and z/OS®: An Administrator's Guide (Hardcover)

"IBM WebSphere Application Server for Distributed Platforms and z/OS" from IBM Press targets WAS admins. The book covers WAS 5.0 and 5.1, highlighting the differences. It covers almost every OS: UNIX, Linux, Windows and Z/OS. A differentiating factor from other books is that the authors focus on Network Deployment throughout, starting with chapter 2.

One thing to note is that there is a lot of duplicated information. Five (out of 26) chapters have separate chapters for distributed and Z/OS. The remaining 16 chapters, sprinkle distributed and Z/OS differences within. In a way, it is two books in one. However, if you are only using one type of OS, the book is thicker and more expensive than necessary.

The authors are quite thorough in discussing most options. They also refer to the InfoCenter, papers and redbooks for more details. There are also many tips and gotchas in each chapter. The step-by-step instructions and screenshots are very helpful.

A running example shows the steps for deploying, configuring and maintaining a sample application. The app is of sufficient complexity to seem real. Tools such as MQ, ASDK and wsadmin are shown in parallel.

The authors intend for each chapter to stand alone. As a result, there is a fair amount of repetition. Aside of one dependency on a future chapter, the book reads well linearly too. This book serves a good reference and I recommend it to those maintaining both distributed and Z/OS systems.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a unified platform, February 7, 2005

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W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IBM® WebSphere® Application Server for Distributed Platforms and z/OS®: An Administrator's Guide (Hardcover)

For several years, IBM has built up and refined WebSphere as one of its flagship products. Here is its latest sysadmin manual. The size of which is a good indicator of the capabilities built into it.

Maybe the biggest change from earlier versions is how much of the code base for versions running under (linux, unix, MS Windows) has now been unified with that for z/OS. The immediate and ongoing beneficiary of this is IBM itself; greatly simplifying maintenance and extensions. Opaque to outsiders. But to a WebSphere sysadmin, you also benefit. Because basically most operations are true across these operating systems, it increases your marketability.

The only minor omission I could find in the text is that the chapter on Web Services could need enhancement. Or, rather, that WebSphere itself have greater Web Services ability. The latter field is changing rapidly and perhaps WebSphere deliberately wants to stay a pace behind, in order to see what new features are actually useful, before implementing them. For example, Business Process Execution Language is rising, as a more expressive language than WSDL, to describe Web Services. If BPEL persists, perhaps the next version of WebSphere might support it?

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Administrators good night reading...., April 27, 2005

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Holger Wunderlich "Holger" (Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IBM® WebSphere® Application Server for Distributed Platforms and z/OS®: An Administrator's Guide (Hardcover)

"IBM WebSphere Application Server for Distributed Platforms and z/OS" is a wonderful compendium, very readable, supplies lots of background information and puts good light on the different platform implementations of WebSphere. I love it, good job!!!